Fikret Berkes (born 1945) is a Canadian ecologist.
He is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of Manitoba's Natural Resources Institute.
[1][2] Berkes studies community-based natural resources management in societies around the world.
[3] He received his Bachelor of Science degree from McGill University, Montreal, Canada, in 1968.
[4][5] In 1974, rather than continuing on with a postdoctoral position in marine ecology, Berkes worked with an anthropologist, Harvey Feit, studying Cree people's fishing.